My Favorite Inexpensive Easy To Use Recovery Tools
As a massage therapist I have several tools that I use on myself after workouts and between workouts that help with recovery, injury prevention and help healing injuries. There are so many tools you can use on yourself to help with recovery. Some can be used for injuries and some can be used as a preventative. Some can even be used before workouts as part of a warm up. Gua sha - Gua sha is the practice of using a tool to apply pressure and scrape the skin to relieve pain and tension. The name gua sha — pronounced gwahshah — comes from the Chinese word for scraping. I have several Gua sha tools but the one I use the most is the Jade. It's great because its small, not too painful and inexpensive. You need to use a little bit of lubricant when using this. I use it mostly on my foot and ankle when I start to get a little bit of pain from running. I don't wait until anything gets really bad and I start using it at the first sign of any p...